Unified Pattern — Bases — YANG mutant, hexagram 12 (Xiao Guo, Preponderance of the Small — King Wen no. 62)
One of 256 distinct Unified Patterns — a 12×12 Jacquard construction where every cell's colour is read off a single hexagram of the Yi King, hexagram Xiao Guo, Preponderance of the Small. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Bases — YANG mutant, one of the 8 admissible families (out of 15) in the system's classification — see the lexicon for how families are built and admitted.
The pattern's three colour classes, set independently — change one, the other two stay put.
One tint, read in light and dark — a luminance reading, not three colours with two greyed out.
Reading the cell, line by line
The 144 cells of the 12×12 cell fall into six levels of 24 cells, one per line of the hexagram. Where the line is solid (yang), the level takes its colours from the family's YANG grid; where it is broken (yin), from its YANG mutant grid. Count of each colour, level by level:
| Level | Line | Grid read | Colour 1 (violet) | Colour 2 (magenta) | Colour 3 (orange) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 2 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 6 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Whole cell | 48 | 48 | 48 | ||
The three colours are exactly balanced: 48 cells each. The cell has every symmetry of the square: both axes, the diagonal, the quarter turn and the half turn.
Hexagram 12 (King Wen no. 62) — Preponderance of the Small
Upper trigram ☳ Zhen (The Arousing, Thunder); lower trigram ☶ Gen (Keeping Still, the Mountain).
Image
On the mountain, Thunder: the image of the small in excess. Movement stirs at the summit, contained by the mass that bears it, forced to remain modest in scope though intense in energy. Thus the noble one, in his conduct, leans toward an excess of respect; in mourning, toward an excess of grief; in his spending, toward an excess of thrift: when circumstances demand restraint, it is better to err on the side of modesty than of ambition.
Judgement — Germination
The small line overflows its frame. There are moments when only the detail, the measured gesture, can still act — wanting grand action then would be a misjudgment. This line says rightness, in certain circumstances, is found precisely in accepted smallness.
The full hexagram page: the six lines, its magic square and the other patterns built on it.
Same shape, other colourings
Two involutions leave this motif's shape unchanged and only permute its three tints — verified across every family and every hexagram in the corpus, not just this one: swapping the pairing used to read the hexagram (YANG/YANG-mutant ↔ YIN/YIN-mutant), and taking the hexagram's binary complement (63 − 12 = 51). Toggle them below; the tiling never changes, only the colours do.
The grid itself
The 12×12 layer map and the three colour grids above, in the raw data — human-readable, and machine-readable as JSON.
Show the data
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Neighbouring motifs
The previous and next hexagram within the same family, Bases — YANG mutant.
